Pencil holder



Aug- 12, 195s H. J. ENGEL 2,846,689

PENCIL HOLDER Filed Dec. 5. 1955 Y, i Y 11,111,11111111111111,"111111111111.11111111111111 LQ m l INVENTOR.

/-QMAN J. ivan ATTOENEY United States patent Once 2,846,589 Patented Aug. 12, 1558 FENCE HOLDER Herman J. Engel, Monterey Park, Calif. Application December 5, 1955, Serial No. 551,112

2 Claims. (ci. z-'zstn This invention relates to a holder for pencils and similar marking instruments and has for an object to provide an improved holder particularly adapted to be provided in or in connection with the pockets of overalls, work jackets, aprons, and similar garments.

Pockets of the character referred to are frequently quite narrow. Pencils long enough to be grasped by their protruding ends are easily removed from such pockets. However, those pencils have been shortened by sharpening may become shorter than the depth of the pockets and are difficult to remove in the absence of a protruding end. Outdoor workers are particularly inconvenienced in this regard, especially if wearing gloves. Hence, otherwise still usable pencils must be discarded when their length has been reduced to less than the depth of the pockets in which carried.

Another object of the invention is to provide a holderprovided pocket in which the holder may be adjusted as desired, and according to the length of the pencil held thereby.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pencil holder that, in addition to holding a pencil in protruded position facilitating removal thereof from a pocket, may be normally retracted so that there is no protrusion of the pencil and protrusion effected with easy facility when desired.

The invention also has for its objects to provide such means that are positive in operation, convenient in use, easily installed in a working position and easily disconnected therefrom, economical of manufacture, relatively simple, and of general superiority and serviceability.

The invention also comprises novel details of construction and novel combinations and arrangements of parts, which will more fully appear in the course of the following description. However, the drawing merely shows and the following description merely describes, one embodiment of the present invention, which is given by way of illustration or example only.

In the drawing, like reference characters designate similar parts in the several views.

Fig. 1 is an elevational View of a pocket provided with a pencil holder according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view as taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view as taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

A garment is indicated by the fabric part 5 and the same is provided with a pocket 6 formed by a cover or patch of fabric 7 held in place as by stitching 8. The foregoing is generally conventional of pocket construction and, according to the invention, the patch of fabric 7 is divided vertically into two parts, as shown, and a slide fastener 9 is provided to connect the adjacent edges of fabric 7. This fastener 9 is used to mount the present holder means 10 so that the same may be adjusted to any desired position between the bottom of the pocket and the upper edge of fabric patch 7.

The holder 10 comprises, generally, a slide unit 11 connected to and movable along the fastener 9, and a receptacle or clip 12 adapted to hold the end of a pencil P.

The slide unit preferably comprises a pair of identical slides 13 and 14 which may be of conventional design and are preferably rigidly connected in tandem as by a bar 15. Said bar is preferably on the outer side of the slide unit substantially as shown. Whether spaced apart, as shown, or closer together, the slides 13 and 14 are oppositely arranged, the lower slide 13 closing the fastener elements 16 of the fastener when said unit is moved toward the top of the pocket, and the upper slide 14 closing said elements when the unit is moved toward the bottom of the pocket.

OfV course, the respective slides 13 and 14 open or unlock the fastener elements to allow the slides to move.

In this manner, the two slides cooperate to maintain the fastener connected regardless where the slide unit 11 is located. Complete removal of said unit may easily be effected by merely sliding the same off the top end of the fastener 9. This removal may be desired during laundering of garment 5. Movement of the unit may be effected by the usual tab 17 which is shown as carried by slide 13 but may be carried by either slide.

The pencil slip 12 is shown as aiiixed to slide 14 but, also, `may be affixed to either slide. As shown, the same is on the inner side of the slide so as to reside in pocket 6. The particular form of said clip 12 is not material to the invention, except that the same be so designed as to serve as a suitable pencil-engaging means that limits the position of a pencil.

As seen in Fig. 2, a pencil may approach the relatively small longitudinal size of clip 12 and yet be readily available for removal from said clip by positioning the slide unit at the upper end of the pocket. Longer pencils are accommodated by a commensurately lower positioning of the unit 11.

From the foregoing it will be clear that the objects of the invention have been realized in a simple and effective form and that the tab 17 may be of the type that locks with the `elements 16 to lock the unit 11 against inadvertent movement.

While the foregoing has illustrated and described what is now contemplated to be the best mode of carrying out my invention, the construction is, of course, subject to modification without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is, therefore, not desired to restrict the invention to the particular form of construction illustrated and described, but to cover all modifications that may fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what vI claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination, in a garment, of a pocket comprising two similar and centrally divided pieces of fabric joined to the garment by parallel lines of stitching along the outer edge of each said piece of fabric and a line of stitching along one transverse edge of the pieces of fabric to form said pocket with an open end opposite said transverse edge; a slide fastener connecting the inner adjacent edges of the fabric pieces and extending between the open end of the pocket and said line of transverse stitching, said fastener being permanently closed at the end thereof adjacent said transverse line of stitching; a pencil-holding clip disposed wholly within said pocket and having a longitudinal position with respect to the longitudinal extent of the fastener; two similar and oppositely arranged slides engaged with the fastener, one of said slides being xedly connected to the clip for longitudinally moving the clip between open and transversely stitched ends of the pocket, one slide, according to the direction of movement of the clip, connecting the separable sides of the thereof. Y

fastener and the other disconnecting the same; a pull tab References Cited in the le of this patent carried by the slide that is unconnected to the clip for lifting the pencil holding clip to the open end of the UNITED STATES PATENTS pocket or lowering it; and a member separatefrom lhe 1,306,296 Abrarnovitch June 10, 1919 clip rigidly connecting the slides.v Y 5 2,042,105 Kelley May 26, 1936 2. The combination according to claim 1 in which the 2,351,803 Best June 20, 1944 slide-connecting member comprises a flat bar that is 2,398,947 Marinsky Apr. 23, 1946 disposed in a plane parallel to the pocket and in con- 2,422,642 Hornbeck June 17, 1947 tiguity to the separable vfastener and wholly outward' 2,501,338 Kass Mar. 21, 195() Y 10 2,596,525 Buelow May 13, 1952 

